Secondary market ticket prices down for Tigers-Athletics playoff series compared with 2011's Tigers-Yankees

Tickets prices on the secondary market for this weekend's Detroit Tigers-Oakland Athletics playoff games are down nearly 9 percent compared with last year's American League Division Series.

The difference likely is because the games are in Detroit. In 2011, they were at Yankee Stadium in New York.

Stuff always is more expensive in Gotham.

Tickets for the games at Comerica Park are averaging $132.15 compared with $145.04 last year, according to data from New York City-based TiqIQ, which aggregates tickets being sold on StubHub, Ticketnetwork, Ticketsnow and eBay.

The company's TiqIQ Direct is a feed that monitors ticket listings from hundreds of brokers.

Game 1 prices today are down even more, averaging $116.22 per ticket, TiqIQ said. Last year, it was $160.33.

Prices for Sunday's Game 2 have a more narrow difference: $137.90 this year versus $142.05 in 2011.

The ALDS last year pitted the Tigers against the New York Yankees.

Saturday's game is at 6:10 p.m. Tickets, whose face value ranges from $35 to $135, are still available at tigers.com and, obviously, on the secondary market.